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❤️ The piece you keep coming back to
Most of us have one piece that never really leaves us, the one we return to when we sit down with no plan, the old friend that is always somehow under the fingers.…
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Week 3 - Tears of Joy 🎉
Final week of the Lágrima Challenge. Time to put it all together and play it through, from the first notes to the Da Capo. 🎉 We close out with a Watch Party on Friday November 6, 5pm CET,…
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🎸 Your guitar, and how you found it
The instrument in our hands shapes everything we do on it, and no two of us arrived at ours the same way. Some searched for years and saved for the one, some play a guitar that found them by accident,…
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Week 2 - Blood, Sweat & Lágrimas 💧
Week 2 of the Lágrima Challenge, and this is the week of honest work. 💧 Every piece has a spot that fights back. Maybe it's a barre in the E minor part, a shift that clunks,…
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🌊 Your tremolo, honestly
Tremolo is the technique that pulls people to the classical guitar and then humbles them for years. That rippling p-a-m-i has a way of sounding effortless in a recording and falling apart the moment…
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Week 1 - Make It Sing 🎶
¡Hola tonebuddies! 🎸 The Lágrima Track is live, and for the next three weeks we're all learning Tárrega's little teardrop together, in the same place, at the same time.…
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6Nov
Watch Party: The Lágrima Challenge
Fri Nov 6 at 8 AM PSThttps://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/gtr-lagrima-watch-party-20265 going -
👀 Let's be honest about sight-reading
Sight-reading is the skill most of us quietly avoid, the one we know we should work on and somehow never schedule. Some play through new music fluently at first sight, some decode it note by note,…
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🔁 Relearning a piece you learned wrong
Almost every long-time player has one, a piece learned years ago with a wrong fingering, a rushed passage, or a bit of tension baked so deep that the mistakes come back every time,…
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Week 4 - D Major and the Ending
Final week. Suggested focus: Sections 7 and 8 (bars 45–73), the D major theme, the pianissimo return, and piecing together the ending. Then the whole piece, bar 1 to bar 73.…
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🧗 The piece just out of reach
Most of us are carrying a piece we are not quite ready for, the one that sits a level or two above where we are and keeps pulling us forward. Some chip away at it in private for years,…
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Week 3 - Into F Major and Turning Up the Heat
Halfway there. Suggested focus this week: Sections 5 and 6 (bars 35–44), the F major theme with its barres and stretches, then the arpeggio up the fretboard and the chromatic scale.…
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🧱 How do you build a practice session?
An hour at the guitar can go a hundred different ways, and how we spend it usually matters more than how long it lasts. Some of us split the time into fixed blocks — technique, new piece,…
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Week 2 - Arpeggios, Slurs, and the Theme Returns
Week 2 of the Capricho árabe Challenge. Suggested focus this week: Sections 3 and 4 (bars 19–34), the big arpeggio, the slur chain, and the theme coming back around.…
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🎨 From correct to musical
Getting the notes right is only the doorway, and we all know pieces that are accurate yet somehow flat. Turning a clean run-through into something that breathes, with shape, colour,…
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2Oct
Watch Party: The Capricho árabe Challenge
Fri Oct 2 at 8 AM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/gtr-capricho-arabe-watch-party-20265 going -
Week 1 - Harmonics and the Main Theme
¡Hola tonebuddies! 🎸 The Capricho árabe Track is live, and for the next four weeks we're all learning Tárrega's most beloved piece together, in the same place, at the same time.…
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14Sep
Capricho Árabe: Inside Tárrega's Timeless Serenade
Mon Sep 14 at 8 AM PDThttps://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/gtr-capricho-arabe-zimny8 going